Sunday, 29 September 2013

Robotics revolution to replace most human workers in three generations; labor class to be systematically eliminated

As much as seventy percent of the human race will become obsolete within
just three generations. Why? Because robotics technology is advancing
at such a rapid pace that highly-capable humanoid robots with advanced
vision recognition and motor coordination systems are going to take over
most menial labor jobs.

Supporting this conclusion, a new study just released by Oxford scientists
concludes that 47% of all jobs are "at risk" of being replaced by
automation systems and robots in just one generation (roughly 20 years).
But this is just the opening chapter of the robotics revolution that
will rapidly make human labor all but obsolete.

In my estimation,
over the next three generations (about 75 years), we will see humanoid
robots take over nearly all traditional labor roles in society,
including manufacturing, agriculture, construction, firefighting, food
service and even community policing. Most of the physical work done
today by humans will be turned over to humanoid-shaped robots built much
the same way we are: two arms, two legs, two eyes and roughly the size
and shape of a 5' 9" man.

This, in turn, will make virtually all
human laborers obsolete. There will be no more need for people to pick
crops, paint houses, clean windows, drive ambulances or even fight wars.
Humanoid robots will take over every repetitious, dangerous, disgusting
or boring task that humans currently tackle, from cleaning toilets and
sweeping floors to driving taxis.

A fascinating new book is coming out on this very topic in just a few days. It's called Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
by James Barrat. I've pre-ordered the book to make sure I get a copy
when it's released on October 1. Obviously, I haven't read the book yet,
but it sounds like it covers what I'm talking about right here: the end
of an entire class of human beings as robots rise up and displace them.

Why a future full of robots may not be as rosy as you think

To
the typical naive citizen, all this talk about robots taking over
menial labor jobs sounds futuristic and exciting. "We can all sit back
and relax!" they'll say. "The robots will do all the work for us!"

Except
for just one thing: the only real reason laborer populations are
tolerated by the rich and powerful who really control the world is
because laborers are needed to run the economy. Someone needs to pick
the crops, sweep the floors and do the dry cleaning, in other words.
Once capable humanoid robots transition into all the jobs currently
carried out by flesh-and-blood humans, there will be no further need for a large segment of the human population.

This,
combined with the terrible cost the world population is accruing in
terms of environmental destruction and use of dwindling resources,
already has world leaders like Bill Gates talking about population control...
also called "depopulation" solutions. Global depopulation technologies
have been under development for decades, running the gamut from mild to
aggressive. Here are the three main types of depopulation technologies
that exist right now:

Depopulation technologies, from mild to aggressive

#1)
Family planning - birth control, abortions and one-child policies that
reduce population over time by limiting childbirth. This is seen by
globalists as the most "humane" way to reduce global population because
it does not require the actual killing of adult humans.

#2)
Covert infertility technologies - these includes GMOs and mercury in
vaccines, both of which either cause spontaneous abortions or result in
widespread infertility. Plastics chemicals also fall into this category.
The key with these systems is that they are deployed covertly,
population-wide, through either the medical system or the food system.
The global elite who are aware of these depopulation vectors intentionally avoid non-GMO foods, mercury-laced vaccines and non-organic food for this very reason.

#3) Direct kill weapons - the primary weapon in this category is bioweapons.
The U.S. Army, in particular, has already developed level IV bioweapons
capable of killing 98% of those it infects. Other direct-kill weapons
include nuclear power plant sabotage, nuclear war (missiles striking
high population areas) and an intentional collapse of the global food
supply, resulting in mass starvation.

Globalist power players are
currently pushing strategy #1 very aggressively through family planning
and abortions. Strategy #2 is also well under way with mass vaccination
and GMO consumption. Strategy #3 is being held in reserve, ready to be
unleashed when the time comes to eliminate the masses and transition the
global economy to a combination of humanoid robots (the majority) run
by a small minority of human elitists.

That's the final equation
in all this: Laborers will be replaced by robots and phased out of the
human gene pool one way or another. What the globalists want remaining
is a highly-automated society with a relatively small number of humans
remaining who are high-IQ individuals capable of focusing on
technological advancement for the survival of the human race in a cosmos
full of competing civilizations. One of the primary focus areas of this
effort will be space-based weapons to defend humanity against
non-terrestrial threats. Those potential threats include
widely-acknowledged things such as asteroids as well as "top secret"
things such as advanced non-terrestrial civilizations mounting an attack
against Earth.

In the cosmic scale of things, by the way, it's
actually a very important strategy to shore up strategic defenses of our
home world, especially as we currently have no backup plan and no
colonies on other worlds. If Earth is destroyed, humanity dies with it.

Who will be allowed to live? Those who can create

Here's
how the globalists think: In order to shape the future in a way that
conserves resources while maximizing the technological progress of human
civilization, all so-called "useless eaters" must be eliminated, as
they waste far too much food, energy and land. The precious resources of
planet Earth must be conserved for those few who have the intelligence
to know what to do with it.

Over the next century, it will become obvious that only innovative, high-IQ individuals who can out-think the robots
have any real value to society. People who can program the robots -- or
help design new ones -- are extremely valuable and will be allowed to
live. People who can invent new technologies, create inspiring art, or
write original fiction will also be valued precisely because they can do
the things robots can't.

Specialty experts like surgeons will
see their roles radically shifted. They will become strategic decision
makers while their companion robots become the mechanics who actually
carry out the procedures with extreme precision. Soldiers, too, will
become in-the-field strategic decision makers managing squads of robotic
grunts. This means the number of soldiers needed to run a war is
drastically reduced, and human soldier casualties will be drastically
reduced as well. (Which creates a dangerous incentive for imperialist
nations to start more wars, thinking, "Oh, it's only robots that are
dying, not people.")

The roles of truck drivers, police officers,
bank tellers, fast food workers, food preparers, lawn care workers and
many others will be radically shifted as robots take over. Importantly,
as each robot is purchased to do a job, it replaces a human worker who will then become jobless.

How robots will multiply the great socioeconomic divide

Robots
will sharply divide the economic classes. Those who are replaced by
robots will become jobless and homeless. Those whose lives are enriched
by the benefit of the robots will become abundantly wealthy in the
material quality of their lives. (Although, notably, robots will not
make their spiritual lives any more meaningful, so don't expect the
robot revolution to equate to increased happiness.)

In time, the
number of people displaced by robots will become so large and so enraged
that mass riots can be expected to unfold across the cities of
first-world nations where robots enjoy widespread deployment. These
riots will reinforce the idea to the globalists that all these "useless
eaters" need to be eliminated. After all, they no longer have anything
to offer society that isn't already accomplished more efficiently by
robots.

Expect to see accelerated efforts to find covert ways to
eliminate these people through food and medicine vectors, including
"free vaccines for the poor" campaigns that intentionally inject
displaced workers with vaccines which cause medium-term death or
widespread spontaneous abortions combined with infertility. For an
historical reference to support this, note that the polio vaccines given to nearly 100 million Americans
were later found to be contaminated with hidden cancer viruses. For
decades, the CDC openly acknowledged this, but in a recent revisionist
history scheme, the CDC scrubbed any mention of polio vaccine contamination from its website, hoping to erase this scientific truth from society's memory.

How to make sure the future needs you

If
you're a cashier, a garbage collector, a drywall installer or any sort
of ditch digger, the sobering truth of the matter is that the future
doesn't need you. And the system will find a way to eliminate you a few
short years after your job is eliminated. After all, the world's
powerful decision makers can't have hundreds of millions of useless
eaters rioting in the streets interfering with progress, right? (That's
the way they think about it, anyway...)

So the only real way to ensure the future needs you is to invest in your education
and boost your mental skills. Learn how to do something robots will not
be able to do over the next 75 years: innovate, create and communicate.
Make your dreams a reality through disciplined self-investment,
entrepreneurship and action.

The more advanced your skills and
mental capabilities, the more of a buffer you'll put between yourself
and all those who will be "soft killed" as the robots take over the labor
jobs in society. Robots, for example, will never be public relations
consultants, fashion designers or fiction writers. They won't be
journalists, screenwriters or psychologists. Robots do not have minds,
spirits or souls, so they can never tap into the infinite creative
potential of the human mind.

Anything you can accomplish that is
creative will never be fully replicated by robots because creativity
simply cannot be programmed. It can be simulated in some ways, but a
robotic, computer-driven brain can never match the creative capacity of
the non-material mind. Thus, conscious human beings with souls and minds
will always have an edge over mechanical robots as long as they develop
their unique spiritual gifts.

Here are some of the roles robots WILL play in society, however, as humanoid robots become increasingly affordable:

The humanoid robot rollout: a rough timeline

•
The first humanoid robots we'll see will be soldiers. They will cost as
much as $20 million each, and they will carry special sensors
(infra-red vision) and equipment (emergency first aid) to track enemy
combatants and help existing soldiers be more "effective" on the
battlefield. Over time, this will transition to robotic soldiers
becoming highly-efficient killing machines. Terminators, in other words,
will soon carry rifles, kick in doors and toss grenades at "enemy
combatants."

• As the cost of humanoid robots comes down, they
will be deployed in municipal roles. Cities will be able to invest in
robots as police officers once they approach the $2 million price range.
Expect to see these appear and function much like the policing robots
depicted in the sci-fi movie "Elysium" starring Matt Damon. View the
trailer here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBtePb-dGY

As
all this happens, the mass production of humanoid robots for military
and police applications will bring down costs and improve reliability.
This will translate into more affordable models which will then be
easily deployed in a wider range of commercial applications:

• At
the $1 million price range, humanoid robots will be embraced by the
private sector for factory jobs: product assembly, welding, warehouse
logistics and so on. While $1 million may seem high, compared to a human
worker who shows up drunk, injures himself on the job, then files a
lawsuit against the company, a million bucks is actually a cheap
investment for a worker that never whines, moans, steals or sexually
assaults fellow workers.

• Once humanoid robots reach roughly
$500,000 in cost, they will be widely adopted by agriculture. A reliable
ag-robot can replace several low-cost laborers, all while performing
the job with better quality control, fewer e.coli infections and no
labor laws to worry about. Robots don't get sick from pesticide exposure,
either, allowing the agricultural industry to unleash extremely toxic
chemicals with zero risk of lawsuits from the workers. This
chemically-contaminated food will be fed to the unemployed masses, of
course, in an effort to kill them off for reasons mentioned above.
(Upper-class citizens will insist on eating organic, non-poisoned
foods.)

• When robots reach roughly the cost of a new home
($300,000 on average), they will become widely embraced by families and
individuals. These general-purpose robots will be sold as a hardware
platform for an "entry-level" lease price, and buyers will pay a monthly
fee much like paying on a home or vehicle.

The "base price"
robot will be extremely limited in function, most likely performing only
very simple jobs such as sweeping floors, serving drinks or providing
basic watchful security. Owners who want their robots to perform more
complex functions will need to purchase additional functional upgrades.
Need your robot to do the dishes? That's a $200 / month software
upgrade. Want it to wash your car? That's another monthly fee. Whatever
you want the robot to do for you -- take out the trash, mow the yard,
feed the cat, guard the house at night -- will require paying another
monthly fee. (BTW, this is a hugely lucrative business to get into once
the technology becomes available. The first trillion-dollar company will
no doubt be involved in robotics.)

What consumers won't be told, by the way, is that all home robots will be spying on homeowners for the NSA,
providing direct visual feeds that are archived in the government's
secret archives. Robots will also overhear all conversations and they
will be programmed to "red flag" anyone who talks about freedom, or
liberty, or other "illicit" activities which may even include buying and
selling heirloom seeds.

In summary, robots will, over time,
transition from extremely expensive, high-end government soldiers to
affordable, mass-produced consumer household helpers that also function
as spy portals for the government to keep tabs on the population. Robots
will also play a huge role in hospitals and health care during all
this. One of the driving forces behind robotics R&D in Japan, it
turns out, is the need for home care robots to aid Japan's aging
population.

The key technologies still needed for humanoid robots to become feasible

Right
now, robots do not exist that can perform all these functions. Today's
humanoid robots are lucky to be able to walk up a flight of stairs
without falling over. Portable power is also extremely limiting right
now and may be the primary challenge for the commercialization of
humanoid robots.

Here are some of the challenges that need to be overcome for robots to become commercially viable:

•
On-board power: current batteries are lousy sources of power. This is
why most robots you see in online videos are tethered to an external
power source.

•
Motor coordination, actuation and strength. This is one of the big ones
we humans take for granted. How, exactly, do you design and build a
robot that can pick up your pet dog without breaking its neck
accidentally? It's a tremendously complicated endeavor, and today's
robots are nowhere near the level of sophistication needed in this area.

•
Behavioral limits and robot safety. How do you teach a robot not to
accidentally harm a living creature such as the family dog or a human
baby? This will be required before robots can be sold into homes, yet
this is also a highly complex area of R&D that actually requires the
engineering of a deep "moral code" of robotics. The programming of
moral codes is extraordinarily difficult because it requires the
development of an entire curriculum of life that must be taught to the
robot brain. For example, robots will need to be programmed with some
sort of "compassion mirroring" circuit that help the robot "feel" what
others are feeling around it, so that if it accidentally steps on
someone's toe and hears that person say, "Ouch!" the robot actually
feels a sort of mirror-image "pain" in its own brain, and thereby learns
not to harm other humans.

Most human beings already have this capacity, by the way. Those who do not have this so-called "empathy circuit" are called sociopaths.
They tend to become high-level politicians and corporate CEOs because
both positions are much easier to achieve if you have absolutely no
compassion for fellow human beings.

One other aspect of all this
is that robots will need to be taught rules for self-preservation. This
also implies that robots will need to be taught the highly complex realm
of "cause and reaction." This furthermore implies that robots must be
taught the laws of physics so that it can, for example, anticipate how a
falling object might harm its own body or the body of its owner. While
such things appear simple to a human mind, they are wildly challenging
problems for software developers dealing with physical robotic hardware
operating in a three-dimensional space.

Even the simple act of
picking a strawberry requires astonishing coordination between vision,
brain interpretation, muscle coordination, timing and so on. How do you
program a robot to avoid crushing the strawberry while gripping it
firmly enough to pull it free from its stem? How do you program a
bipedal robot to walk through strawberry fields without crushing plants
and smashing the fruit? These are extremely complex problems, and it
will take decades to solve them.

The bottom line

The
upshot of all this is that even though robotics is still a long way from
achieving the level of sophistication required to see humanoid robots
deployed in military, commercial and household applications, the day is
coming that robots will replace most human laborers.

When that
day comes, unskilled laborers will have no (commercial) value to
society. Robotics will expand the divide between the ultra-wealthy and
the homeless, jobless masses. The global elite will deploy means of
depopulation or population control to eliminate the "useless eaters" and
drastically reduce human population on the planet.

The only
humans "allowed" to remain alive will be those who possess valuable
intelligence, skills or creativity that robots cannot replicate. People
with creative skills will always be valued, even in a highly automated
society.

The best way to protect your future and avoid becoming
obsolete is to invest in developing your own creative skills so that you
are always able to offer something to society which robots cannot. This
will ensure your continued value.

If you have children, guiding
them toward the development of creative skills is the best way to ensure
their long-term survival in a society that's transitioning into
robotics automation.